Are you trying to replace "go" with "/" on lines that start with "go"? If so, you should be matching against $_, not $text. Also, you never use $text after you do the substitution... if you want something useful, you should do something, like print the line. This probably doesn't do exactly what you want, but here's my best shot: 
# print each line after replacing "go" with "/"
while (<FILE>) {
    $count++ if s/^go/\//;
    print;
}
print STDERR "There were $count lines starting with 'go' in this file\
+n";

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In reply to Re: Matching Question by thelenm
in thread Matching Question by curtisb

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